Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3356 - Youngstown State University
Chapter 3356-10 - Policies on Admission, Retention, and Graduation standards
Section 3356-10-13 - Research, grants, and sponsored programs
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3356-10-13
Current through all regulations passed and filed through December 16, 2024
(A) Policy statement. Believing that the quality of education and public service is grounded in scholarship, the university seeks to encourage and support research and scholarly and professional activity that strengthen its educational and service mission.
(B) Definitions.
(1) "Sponsored programs" are activities,
including research, teaching, training or service programs, substantially
funded by agencies external to the university and which require program
technical, administrative, and fiscal accountability.
(2) "Grants, contracts, and cooperative
agreements" are legal instruments governing the administration of sponsored
programs.
(3) "Research" is legally
defined as "" a systematic investigation, including research development,
testing, and evaluation designed to develop or contribute to generalizable
knowledge"" [
45 CFR
46.102(d)]. It includes
internally and/or externally sponsored research, or unfunded research,
conducted by authorized faculty or staff.
(C) Parameters.
(1) The university, as an entity of state
government, is legally authorized to serve as fiscal agent for sponsored
programs undertaken with institutional approval by faculty and staff who may be
designated as principal investigators (for research projects) or project
directors (on other activities).
(2) University employees or students may not
undertake sponsored programs involving university resources unless
institutionally authorized to do so.
(3) The president, provost/vice president for
academic affairs and director of research services are specifically
designated to serve as institutional officials with the authority to approve
sponsored program proposals and agreements.
(4) Upon recommendation of the provost and
the
president may designate additional institutional officials as authorized to
approve sponsored program proposals and agreements.
(5) The provost and the
director of research services are the university
officials having primary authority to oversee the
appropriate conduct of sponsored program activities, systems, and
services.
(6) The university
research council is charged with assisting the provost and the director of research services in
stimulating sponsored program activity.
(7) All documents, reports, and/or other
publications created under university auspices, notwithstanding the source of
support, must appropriately acknowledge the university.
(D) Procedures.
(1) All sponsored programs are initiated by
submission of a written proposal, including the proper completion of
the Youngstown state university proposal routing
process,
identifying the nature of the research or other activity, an estimate of the
time needed to complete it, and a full costing of all resources needed to
support the project.
(a) Faculty proposals are
electronically routed by the principal
investigator/project director to the department chair(s) and dean(s) of the
academic unit(s) involved in the anticipated project. Following their review
and approval, the proposal is electronically routed to the director of research
services for review and submission clearance and the
director of grants accounting prior to approval by an authorized
institutional official (usually the director of research services
and provost).
(b) Proposals from other areas of the
university must be forwarded to the appropriate supervisor and the provost/
vice president for academic affairs or other appropriate associate vice
president prior to transmittal to the office of research services, followed by the office of grants accounting, and
approval by an authorized institutional official.
(2) All sponsored program applications and
award agreements must be reviewed by the director of research services and
approved by an authorized institutional official (either the director of
research services and provost) before individuals
can accept an award or begin any work.
(3) Information on research policies, grants
and sponsored programs is available from the office of research services in the
following formats:
(a) The office of research
services webpage.
(b) Grant
development workshops offered by the office of research services each
semester.
(c) Personal meetings
with the director or staff members of the office of research
services.
(4) Other
information on faculty research and related considerations is available in the
collective bargaining agreement between Youngstown state university and
Youngstown state university chapter of the Ohio education
association.
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